06 Jul The Keckley Report – Is Gilead’s price for remdesivir fair?
Last week, Gilead Sciences announced pricing for its breakthrough Covid-19 drug remdesivir (brand name Veklury) approved by the FDA for emergency use in May....
01 Jul Emory – Federal Officials Turn to a New Testing Strategy as Infections Surge
Millions of additional coronavirus tests may be processed with “pooling,” enabling widespread surveillance as the country struggles to reopen....
25 Jun How We Reopen Safely
We are a group of public health & crisis experts with experience working at the White House, Department of Health & Human Services, and on the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. Learn more....
24 Jun Cathy Jacobson, President & CEO, Froedtert Health
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Cathy Jacobson always returns to the kitchen. That’s where she began her healthcare career as a 16-year-old in a 70-bed community hospital—a long-ago casualty of consolidation—in her small hometown 90 minutes west of Chicago. That’s also where her mother, an RN, mentored her in the...
23 Jun VIDEO | Bill Russell Field Report: Froedtert Health with CTO Tahir Ali
#ThisWeekinHealthIT we sit down with Tahir Ali the CTO for Froedtert Health for another field report....
23 Jun Memorial Health System – Don’t ‘Break the Bank’ When Innovating for COVID-19 and Beyond. What One Health System Did
The Memorial Health System team used standard data management and visualization tools to create a powerful dashboard, contact tracing system, and PPE and community hot spot surveillance tools without additional workforce. Their approach could serve as inspiration to small- and medium-sized health systems....
22 Jun The Keckley Report – Medpac Report to Congress: No surprises but incomplete
Ina letter to Vice President Pence and House Speaker Pelosi last week, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission conveyed its annual report to Congress: “Medicare and the Health Care Delivery System.” In the 227-page report, the commissioners warned that “unless substantial changes are made to the...
19 Jun Banner Health – The doctor leading the coronavirus response at the largest health system in Arizona shares how it’s confronting a surge in cases since the state reopened
On June 8, Banner Health sounded the alarm on the rising number of coronavirus cases in Arizona. The number of people on ventilators had quadrupled since the state reopened on May 15, the health system said. Banner Health operates in eight states and is the...
19 Jun Rush University Medical Center – Coronavirus Disparities: ‘Poverty Is What’s Really Killing People’
AS THE CORONAVIRUS pandemic swept across the U.S. this spring, a disturbing pattern emerged: African Americans were getting infected, and dying, at disproportionately high rates. And Chicago – where blacks make up 30% of the population but are dying from COVID-19 at two to three...
18 Jun PODCAST | Baptist Health – Interview with CMIO Brett Oliver, Part 2: We Won’t Go Back to the Status Quo
There’s an interesting dynamic that happens when an organization faces a crisis. The compounding factors of stress, fear, and exhaustion can cut right to the core, and individuals are separated into two groups: naysayers and believers. And it’s the believers — the ones who focus...